Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Natural Solution

Here is another mechanism to social change that is so simple and so obvious that it is easy to overlook. My personal experience and observations with working as a guide, teacher, and rescuer in the out of doors is very much in line with what this article is pointing towards. I am planning on focusing a significant amount of my attention towards this topic - the importance of having a personal connection to nature and how it affects an individual's well-being. In short, this article deals with the decreasing time that children are spending in the outdoors and how scientific research is actually revealing how detrimental this "nature-deficit disorder" truly is to the well-being of humans. For anyone that has spent a fair amount of time in the out of doors this will not be a surprise.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/people-in-nature/200901/no-more-nature-deficit-disorder

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